Nails: Top 5 Summer Polishes 2026

Summer Solstice was yesterday and so I'm sharing my top summer polishes for 2026. These are the polishes from my collection I will be reaching for more often.

If you are interested you can see my summer picks for 2025 here, 2024 here, 2023 here, 2022 here, 2021 here, 2020 here, 2019 here, 2018 here, 2017 here, 2015 here and 2014 here.

Nails Inc Baker Street // Prism Polish Selenite // Chameleon Nails Little Mermaid // A England The Scent of Azaleas // Danglefoot Polish Oh, Plesiosaur

Baker Street is a bright cobalt blue cream, last year it was one of the polishes I wanted to finish and I think there is only one or two sets of nails worth left in the bottle so want to use it this summer.

Selenite is a blue, flakie, topper polish. I've already worn it over a blue and want to wear it again soon.

Little Mermaid is a UV reactive polish going from green to purple, however the bottle I have no longer reacts. I do want to use it though because I like the sea foam green, flakie colour it now is.

The Scent of Azaleas is a mid purple holographic, which I like wearing in direct sunlight.

Oh, Plesiosaur is a dark grey, almost black holographic polish. It is different to Oh, Plesiosaur 2.0. Black may not seem particularly summer appropriate but there is something about holographic colours in direct sunlight which you don't get in winter, well in Northern England!

  

Nails: Top 5 Summer Polishes 2024

Summer Solstice is tomorrow and so I'm sharing my top summer polishes for 2024. These are the polishes from my collection I will be reaching for more often.

If you are interested you can see my summer picks for 2023 here, 2022 here, 2021 here, 2020 here, 2019 here, 2018 here, 2017 here, 2015 here and 2014 here.

Color Club Pucci-licious // Barry M Wild Fig // Orly Rinse and Repeat // Color Club Twiggie // Orly Glowstick

Pucci-licious is showing up lighter below but the bottleshot is more colour accurate. It is a bright, almost neon purple cream.

Wild Fig is a bright almost neon shade, not a barbie pink but still bright.

Rinse and Repeat is a bright summer-y blue shade.

Twiggie is showing up much more bleached in the swatch below, it is a bright spring green cream.

Glowstick is again not showing up colour accurate, it is a highlighter yellow, very neon and bright cream.

   

Nails: Top 5 Summer Polishes 2023

Summer Solstice was last Wednesday and so I should get around to sharing my top summer polishes for 2023. These are the polishes from my collection I will be reaching for more often.

If you are interested you can see my summer picks for 2022 here, 2021 here, 2020 here, 2019 here, 2018 here, 2017 here, 2015 here and 2014 here.

Orly Plastic Jungle // Orly Connect the Dots // Nails Inc Baker Street // Emily de Molly Rock Solid // Tonic Polish Jinx

Orly Plastic Jungle - A vivid green cream colour, opaque in two coats. Also very hard to photograph accurately.

Orly Connect the Dots - A warm almost neon peach cream, surprised at how much I liked this one. Bright and summery in two coats.

Nails Inc Baker Street - A classic within the nail polish realm, cream two coater mid blue. A similar blue would be Barry M Blue Guava.

Emily de Molly Rock Solid - The flakie of my picks, a blue base with blue purple iridescent flakes.

Tonic Polish Jinx - Finally is Jinx a very holographic silver polish, two coats and has a very clear rainbow flair reflection to it.

   

Nails: Top 5 Summer Polishes 2022

Summer Solstice will be tomorrow and so I should get around to sharing my top summer polishes for 2022. These are the polishes from my collection I will be reaching for more often.

If you are interested you can see my summer picks for 2021 here, 2020 here, 2019 here, 2018 here, 2017 here, 2015 here and 2014 here.

Orly - Crash the Party // Polish Me Silly - Glow Girl // ILNP - Funshine Smoothie // AJ Nails - Peacock // Barry M - Holographic Lights

Crash the Party is a bright warm neon purple polish, quite bold and very difficult to photograph.

Glow Girl a flakie topper, I recently wore it over a lilac cream for a ethereal sort of design.

Funshine Sunshine is a bright warm yellow holographic polish, holo polishes look great in sunlight.

Peacock is very much a neon green, one that is opaque in two coats and no white base coat required. Neon polishes are something I reach for more often in summer.

Holographic Lights, is another holo polish so great in sunlight, and this one is a bright silver.

   

Nails: Top 5 Summer Polishes 2021

Summer Solstice will be next Monday and so I should get around to sharing my top summer polishes for 2021. These are the polishes from my collection I will be reaching for more often.

If you are interested you can see my summer picks for 2020 here, 2019 here, 2018 here, 2017 here, 2015 here and 2014 here.

Barry M - Pineapple Punch // Dystopia - Couldn't Miss This One This Year // Orly - Synthetic Symphony // Polish Me Silly - Glow Girl // AJ Nails - Peacock

Barry M Pineapple Punch this polish was released earlier this year and its very bright yellow, clearly not neon but bright enough.

Dystopia Couldn't Miss This One This Year is a photochromatic polish which means in sunlight it changes colour. Great for summer as there isn't much sunlight here the rest of the year.

 

Orly Synthetic Symphony is a bright purple polish, quite bold and very difficult to photograph.

Polish Me Silly Glow Girl a flakie topper, I like it over black as it shows off the blue, purple, pink colour shift.

 

AJ Nails Peacock is very much a neon green, one that is opaque in two coats and no white base coat required.